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Almost English

2013-09-01 Fiction
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Release : 2013-09-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Almost English by : Charlotte Mendelson

Download or read book Almost English written by Charlotte Mendelson. This book was released on 2013-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2013 Home is a foreign country: they do things differently there. In a tiny flat in West London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, Laura, and three ancient Hungarian relatives. Imprisoned by her family's crushing expectations and their fierce unEnglish pride, by their strange traditions and stranger foods, she knows she must escape. But the place she runs to makes her feel even more of an outsider. At Combe Abbey, a traditional English public school for which her family have sacrificed everything, she realises she has made a terrible mistake. She is the awkward half-foreign girl who doesn't know how to fit in, flirt or even be. And as a semi-Hungarian Londoner, who is she? In the meantime, her mother Laura, an alien in this strange universe, has her own painful secrets to deal with, especially the return of the last man she'd expect back in her life. She isn't noticing that, at Combe Abbey, things are starting to go terribly wrong.

An Almost English Life

2012-09-06 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2012-09-06
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 005/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis An Almost English Life by : Miriam Gross

Download or read book An Almost English Life written by Miriam Gross. This book was released on 2012-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sparklingly witty memoir, which takes us on a seductive journey from wartime Jerusalem to the heart of Fleet Street, providing a riveting outsider's view of English cultural life.

When We Were Bad

2007 Fiction
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Release : 2007
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 431/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis When We Were Bad by : Charlotte Mendelson

Download or read book When We Were Bad written by Charlotte Mendelson. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics in Britain are already raving about Charlotte Mendelson’s excoriatingly funny yet deeply humane novel about a glamorous London family that happens to be falling apart. The Rubins are the perfect family. They’re wonderfully happy and very glamorous. The mother, Claudia, is the ultimate Jewish matriarch: a powerful rabbi known for her charm, brains, and determination. Now this dynastic Jewish family is getting ready to marry off the perfect eldest son. History, community, and even gastronomy unite the guests lucky enough to attend this joyous occasion. But when the groom -- one minute before exchanging vows -- bolts with the wrong woman, the myths that have defined this family take on darker overtones. Mendelson’s astonishing eye for detail, as well as her just-right balance of plot and character, makes the unfolding of this story an uncommon treat. In a marvelously compressed style that also bursts with life, she reveals how all four adult Rubin children, and their parents, struggle with huge secrets, sexual frustration and sexual experimentation, and many betrayals. Charlotte Mendelson opens a window on a realm rarely explored in British society: the complicated world of English Jewry. But to watch this seemingly blessed family drastically, disastrously fall apart before regaining balance is to understand that their struggles -- like all of ours -- are universal ones.

Almost Famous Women

2015-01-06 Fiction
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Release : 2015-01-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 569/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Almost Famous Women by : Megan Mayhew Bergman

Download or read book Almost Famous Women written by Megan Mayhew Bergman. This book was released on 2015-01-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly every story in this collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity, from Lord Byron's illegitimate daughter, Allegra, to Oscar Wilde's troubled niece, Dolly.

The Buddha of Suburbia

1991-05-01 Fiction
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Release : 1991-05-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 68X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Buddha of Suburbia by : Hanif Kureishi

Download or read book The Buddha of Suburbia written by Hanif Kureishi. This book was released on 1991-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel "There was one copy going round our school like contraband. I read it in one sitting ... I'd never read a book about anyone remotely like me before."-- Zadie Smith "My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost..." The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is dreamy teenager Karim, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer. When the unlikely opportunity of a life in the theatre announces itself, Karim starts to win the sort of attention he has been craving - albeit with some rude and raucous results. With the publication of Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi landed into the literary landscape as a distinct new voice and a fearless taboo-breaking writer. The novel inspired a ground-breaking BBC series featuring a soundtrack by David Bowie.

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